Steve

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Steve.

http://www.stephenlella.com/
https://www.goodreads.com/n00dlejester

Pawn of Prophecy
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (page 47 of 262)
19 hours, 36 min ago

 
Sapiens: A Brief ...
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (page 328 of 443)
Apr 07, 2026 05:40AM

 
Loading...
Yuval Noah Harari
“Whichever way it happened, the Neanderthals (and the other human species) pose one of history’s great what ifs. Imagine how things might have turned out had the Neanderthals or Denisovans survived alongside Homo sapiens. What kind of cultures, societies and political structures would have emerged in a world where several different human species coexisted? How, for example, would religious faiths have unfolded? Would the book of Genesis have declared that Neanderthals descend from Adam and Eve, would Jesus have died for the sins of the Denisovans, and would the Qur’an have reserved seats in heaven for all righteous humans, whatever their species? Would Neanderthals have been able to serve in the Roman legions, or in the sprawling bureaucracy of imperial China? Would the American Declaration of Independence hold as a self-evident truth that all members of the genus Homo are created equal? Would Karl Marx have urged workers of all species to unite?”
Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari
“The story of the luxury trap carries with it an important lesson. Humanity’s search for an easier life released immense forces of change that transformed the world in ways nobody envisioned or wanted. Nobody plotted the Agricultural Revolution or sought human dependence on cereal cultivation. A series of trivial decisions aimed mostly at filling a few stomachs and gaining a little security had the cumulative effect of forcing ancient foragers to spend their days carrying water buckets under a scorching sun. Divine”
Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Frank Herbert
“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”
Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

Frank Herbert
“When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.”
Frank Herbert, Dune

Yuval Noah Harari
“The advent of cooking enabled humans to eat more kinds of food, to devote less time to eating, and to make do with smaller teeth and shorter intestines. Some scholars believe there is a direct link between the advent of cooking, the shortening of the human intestinal track, and the growth of the human brain. Since long intestines and large brains are both massive energy consumers, it’s hard to have both. By shortening the intestines and decreasing their energy consumption, cooking inadvertently opened the way to the jumbo brains of Neanderthals and Sapiens.”
Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

year in books
Brittany
90 books | 47 friends

Kara
673 books | 56 friends

Maggie
1,339 books | 109 friends

Alex
1,335 books | 130 friends

Megan
1,081 books | 340 friends

S Nizami
296 books | 52 friends

Tom Conte
232 books | 81 friends

Stephan...
292 books | 125 friends

More friends…


Polls voted on by Steve

Lists liked by Steve